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Participant[quote=SK in CV]
NYT btw, is NOT pro-Clinton. As a whole, they’ve pretty much hated the Clinton’s since the mid 90’s.[/quote]
Really? The long line of endorsements of Democratic candidates is just a clever ruse, I guess. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/23/opinion/presidential-endorsement-timeline.html?_r=0
Participant[quote=zk][quote=njtosd]
Both the Washington Post and the NYT, usually very pro Dem
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[quote=njtosd]
But I don’t trust them – there’s too much smoke for there to be no fire at all, [/quote]Wow. Here is the right-wing noise machine working its magic.
They tell you over and over again that the msm is “very pro dem.” So you believe it.
They have no fire to show you, so they use innuendo and half-truth to create the illusion of smoke, and you say there must be fire.
If you get trump, you deserve him.[/quote]
Have you read anything that I’ve written other than what you’ve quoted? I’m not a Trump supporter.
ParticipantIt sounds like the SoCal locations are doing well financially – especially those that have been overhauled. The ones that are closing (about 30/100) are outside of Orange and San Diego counties.
I love it as do my girls. My husband and son aren’t as interested. Not enough meat ….
Participant[quote=flu-redux]I was shocked that for many parents, their understanding of math stops around 5-6th grade here in this country, as some.has spoken to me. That’s a big issue because when you have one teacher teaching 28kodd and spending only about 2-3 hours a day, a lot of child’s are going to get left behind[/quote]
What’s worse is that I have found few elementary teachers who love math or science. Most have a similar comprehension to what you are describing – yet they are responsible for teaching these kids who may not have a lot of support at home. Most kids in the Carmel Valley neck of the woods, as you know, are put in with tutors, after school programs, or Khan Academy to make up for it. It’s a shame for our school district and for virtually every other school district .
Participant[quote=flu-redux][quote=njtosd][quote=flu-redux]
I grew up working my ass off, just like my parents did. I was raised with the mentality that no one owes you shit, and not to count on anyone. I was raised with the mentality that life ain’t fair, and somewhere along the line, its not going to be an even playing field, and even when that’s the case, stop making sorry ass excuses for yourself, because no one cares. And I was also raised with the notion that so long as you spend more time self improving and less time bitching about the injustices of the world, you would be a much more productive member of society and productive for yourself.[/quote]
Just to play the devil’s advocate (and I am in favor of working hard . . . ) – if you cannot count on anyone, if people simply accept that life isn’t fair, if no one really cares and if no one is willing to combat the injustices of the world – the world will give people just those things. There should be people out there rallying for fair treatment, correcting or at least minimizing the injustices and thinking beyond simply their own needs. People need to get mad when there is unfairness, not just buckle under and work harder. Life isn’t fair but we should always work to make it so, even if we know we won’t succeed. All said, though, this should never be used as an excuse.[/quote]
Well, sure. But that doesn’t seem to be what is happening in the trump camp is it? Let’s see, let’s solve this problem by attacking latinos, Muslims, and to a lesser extent, Asian and Indian H1Bs.
If trump was such an advocate of worker rights, how about simply stating we are going to be enforcing existing immigration laws to ensure we have people who are legally authorized to be here. How about stating we are going to be providing job training to those that have left behind?
The best thing Trump can do is say “we are going to eliminate estate taxes???” Really? Come on, don’t you think this is just ridiculous? You have a bunch of uneducated unskilled underemployed people in the Rustbelt region that are claiming illegals are stealing their minimum wage jobs. And the solution trump comes with is lower estate taxes??????
That might benefit Mr, how does that help some person on minimum wage? And yet, people STILL think he can help their plight?It seems like it’s almost like trump is testing exactly what he can throw out out there before his supporters actually start to think, just to see what sort of nonsense he can get away with. Meanwhile, keep people that don’t think filled with hate so they miss the bigger picture….
When did this “problem” become a personal issue with a particular group of people? That isnt being an advocate. Thats just plain irresponsible as a leader. It doesn’t matter how you soon it.
I am certainly no fan of Bernie, but at least his intention was to help people, as unrealistic as some of his ideas were.
Tla good portion of trump supporters eant to latch onto the easiest thing possible, hate and blame. Why? Because it’s a lot easier than doing the much harder thing
..Work… apparently, people arent desperate enough just yet to actually motivate for the later.The way these people want to solve the problem is by limiting others, without willing to put the time and effort in themselves. No different than affirmative action.[/quote]
I agree with what you’re saying and I don’t like Trump. I just worry about the attitude of “keep your head down, work hard and learn how to deal with whatever is doled out”. It reminds me of Russia in the 70s – not that I have anything against Russia . . Although the attitude that you describe works, it isn’t very pleasant – and accepts the premise that we cannot expect a lot of joy in life.
In short – there are a lot of ways to skin a cat – some better than others. A combination of hard work plus a reasonable resistance to unreasonable policies is the best route – in my opinion.
Participant[quote=flu-redux]
I grew up working my ass off, just like my parents did. I was raised with the mentality that no one owes you shit, and not to count on anyone. I was raised with the mentality that life ain’t fair, and somewhere along the line, its not going to be an even playing field, and even when that’s the case, stop making sorry ass excuses for yourself, because no one cares. And I was also raised with the notion that so long as you spend more time self improving and less time bitching about the injustices of the world, you would be a much more productive member of society and productive for yourself.[/quote]
Just to play the devil’s advocate (and I am in favor of working hard . . . ) – if you cannot count on anyone, if people simply accept that life isn’t fair, if no one really cares and if no one is willing to combat the injustices of the world – the world will give people just those things. There should be people out there rallying for fair treatment, correcting or at least minimizing the injustices and thinking beyond simply their own needs. People need to get mad when there is unfairness, not just buckle under and work harder. Life isn’t fair but we should always work to make it so, even if we know we won’t succeed. All said, though, this should never be used as an excuse.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]vehetables feel no pain
You are very heterotroph-centric: http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-intelligence-may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plants
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-83446,00.html
Participant[quote=SK in CV]. Investigations found no wrongdoing. Like every single investigation into her and her husband, no finding of wrongdoing, with the exception of a blow job.[/quote]
My impression was that there was never an official investigation – if you are aware of something I would be curious. Unofficial investigations are limited in their ability to unearth info that the investigated person doesn’t want to turn over. Both the Washington Post and the NYT, usually very pro Dem, were pretty critical, for example: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/30/us/hillary-clinton-turned-1000-into-99540-white-house-says.html?pagewanted=all
They are a slick couple – both very bright. But I don’t trust them – there’s too much smoke for there to be no fire at all, although I don’t know whether they are any worse than any others. I get the feeling that they both think they are smart enough to misdirect or befuddle the average American.
Participant[quote=SK in CV] . . . . She’s been accused of scores of things that either never happened, or what she did do has been twisted into something that wasn’t even close to the truth. Yet she stands there and still takes it. She doesn’t lose her cool. And she is always prepared.
Yeah, she stood by her husband. Trump never had a wife that thought he was good enough to fight for. If anyone thinks faults shared by Trump and Clinton make them equal, they’ve missed a lot. Those faults are the worst thing about Bill Clinton. They don’t even make the top 10 for Trump.
And yeah, I threw up a little bit as I typed that line. But that doesn’t mean they’re not true.[/quote]
She’s not squeaky clean. She’s a scrapper and frankly, does have a lot of “stamina.” But that doesn’t make her a girl scout. In my opinion, the cattle futures trading issue was HIGHLY unlikely to have been legit. She made the equivalent of $330,000 in 2016 dollars in *10 months* on a $3000 (in 2016 dollars) investment. Many of the investment laws and regs were not scrupulously followed, although that was not terribly unusual at the time. From wikipedia: “The editor of the Journal of Futures Markets said in April 1994, “This is like buying ice skates one day and entering the Olympics a day later. She took some extraordinary risks.”
You seem to have an emotional attachment to Hillary that keeps you from seeing her “warts and all” as the saying goes. There are no politicians out there that are worth quoting Elton John over. They have their goals, and we vote for the ones whose goals come closest to ours. But that doesn’t make any of them Mother Theresa.
Participant[quote=SK in CV]
To steal another’s words, she had the grace to hold herself, while those around her crawled.[/quote]
Now you’ve become entirely maudlin. That’s one of the most cringe-inducing lines I’ve seen in these threads. She’s a better choice than Trump, but she’s no prize pig, She also stood by while her husband did many of the things you accuse Trump of.
Participant[quote=spdrun]I think there’s also a trend to police not being as “proactive”, where it can be seen as brutal. This is probably a good thing. Ten years ago, they might have been hauled off to jail at the slightest pretext.[/quote]
Part of the problem could also be that there are fewer places for the homeless to go that are safe, vermin free and have reasonable rules: https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/why_homeless_people_avoid_shelters
ParticipantI have scanned the comments and don’t believe that what I’m about to say has been addressed – if I”m wrong, feel free to ignore.
You are a software guy. If you are good, there must be something that you could produce, independently, that someone would be interested in. Not sure about the terms of your employment agreement, but if you have legal room to generate and sell your own software I would think you should be putting your free time toward that. I don’t know anything about you, but my feeling is that if one were to put good engineers and good real estate agents/brokers on a Venn diagram, there would be little to no intersection of those two circles. Why try to retrain yourself when the skills you already have are valuable? I have six (at least) ideas of web based services that I think would be marketable – maybe I’m right, maybe I’m wrong, but if I have that many I’m sure you have more (and if you don’t, that’s something to think about).
Most people want others to give them a job. When they do that, they sell their time and there is only a finite amount of time. On the other hand, if you start your own business and you come up with Flappy Bird, or similar, you can sell millions of downloads in a day. And I’m being a little facetious, you don’t have to have a blockbuster – a little extra income goes a long way depending on how you invest it.
Best wishes to you.
Participant[quote=svelte]
What city was this in?
If someone calls 911 stating intruders are ransacking their house and the police don’t arrive in under 5 minutes, then you need to have a talk with your local police department and hit all the news stations with the story.[/quote]
Carmel Valley. And yes – there have been a fair number of complaints about slow response times.
Participant[quote=svelte][quote=njtosd] I personally had not heard of anything like this before.[/quote]
Risky Business
Sixteen Candles
Project X
American Pie
Superbad
House PartyTeen house parties going amuck while the parents are away were in all of those movies. Maybe word of mouth didn’t spread via craigslist/facebook/twitter, but there have always been ways to spread it.
When I had teens at home and my wife and I were going to be away for the evening or weekend, I would go talk to the neighbors and explain that we were leaving a teen alone and that if ANY strange cars/people came by the house, to give us a call. So I knew about the possibilities even back then. We didn’t want to come back and find Animal House in our living room.[/quote]
Yes, obviously, I’ve seen movies about this. You don’t think movies are real life, though, do you? Most here seem determined that this girl or her friends had something to do with it. Perhaps that is the case, and I am still trying to find this out, but this would probably be one of the last types of kids I would expect this from. Naturally, I wouldn’t have posted it if I thought that were the case (in fact, that scenario happened next door a few years ago and it was clear what was going on).
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